GLO-BUS Annual Report

Deliverables:

• Online version submitted to turnitin.com

Please prepare an Annual Report for your company. Your report should include the following:

1. Team Member, Class Section & Day, Title Page, Table of Contents

 A title page that includes the name of your industry, company name, the names of the
co-managers (with student numbers), date and name of the instructor.

 A table of contents with page numbers.

 A brief review of the financial performance of your company during the time you and
your co-managers have run the company.

2. Review of Financial performance (10 marks)

This review should consist of charts showing the following:
o Trends in the company's annual total revenues

o Trends in the company's annual earnings per share (EPS)

o Trends in the company's annual return on equity investment (ROE)

o Trends in the company's annual credit rating

o Trends in the company's year-end stock price

o Trends in the company's annual image rating

You can copy the bar graphs showing your company’s trends for the above six
measures from the Performance Summary.

You are expected to use the charts to form the context of your written analysis. NEVER
include a chart/table that is not written about. You can also create additional charts or
tables if you feel that they will enhance your report.

3. Strategic Vision (5 marks)

A section describing the company’s strategic vision.

4. Performance target forecasting (10 marks)

A section that shows what performance targets for EPS, ROE, credit rating, image rating
and year-end stock price you and your co-managers would set for each of the next two
years (assuming the simulation were to continue). Provide support for your forecasted
performance targets.

5. Company’s competitive strategy in cameras (10 marks)

A section that sets forth your company's competitive strategy in cameras in some detail
and how that strategy has evolved over the years you have managed the company. The
length of this section will also be a function of how varied your company's strategy in
cameras was from geographic region to geographic region, such that your company is
pursuing a meaningfully different competitive strategy in some regions versus others. If
you did not produce any cameras, focus on item#6.

6. Company’s competitive strategy in drones (10 marks)

A section that sets forth your company's competitive strategy in drones in some detail
and how that strategy has evolved over the years. Again, the length of this section will
also be a function of how varied your company's strategy in drones was from geographic
region to geographic region, such that your company is pursuing a meaningfully different
competitive strategy in some regions versus others. If you did not produce any drones
focus on item#5.

7. Competitors’ analysis (10 marks)

A section showing (1) companies you consider to be your strongest/closest competitors

in cameras as of the last year or two of the simulation, and (2) companies that are your
 strongest/closest competitors in the drones as of the last year or two of the simulation.
Again, if you only produced cameras, focus on (1), whereas if you only produced
drones, focus on (2).

8. Strategy to ‘out-compete’ closest competitors (10 marks)

One or more sections detailing the actions you would take to out-compete the close
rivals identified in item#7 above, over the next two years (assume the simulation
continues for several more years). Since the actions may differ between cameras and
drones, the length of this/these section(s) will be a function of the degree of difference.

9. Lessons learned (5 marks)

A section detailing the "lessons learned" about crafting a winning strategy and about
what the managers of a company should or should not do for a company to be financially
and competitively successful in a head-to-head battle against shrewdly-managed rival
companies.

10. Turnaround Strategy (5 mark deduction if not included) – for groups in last or
second-last position

If your firm became bankrupt during the simulation, or if your firm finished in last or
second-last place within its industry, then your report must also include a turnaround
strategy that clearly explains what you would do differently to remedy the situation. This
may include changes to management, strategies, financial structure, products, or
markets.

Format of the Annual report

• 12 -15 pages (double-spaced)

• Font: Times New Roman 12pt or Arial 11pt

• Clear sections headings

• Standard/Default margins

NOTE:

1. As this report bears many similarities to a corporation’s annual report, you are expected to
adapt the traditional format of annual reports to fit with the aforementioned required
sections. In order to familiarize yourself with the layout/appearance of annual reports, see
the following examples:

a. Research In Motion (RIM): http://www.rim.com/investors/pdf/RIM09AR_FINAL.pdf

b. Sony Corporation: http://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/IR/financial/ar/8ido180000023g2o-
att/SonyAR09-E.pdf

2. You are strongly encouraged to use pictures, graphics, etc… to make the report
visually appealing as marks are allocated for overall appearance.